This year’s Brecht Tage, curated by Luise Meier and Florian Thamer commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune in a four-day program entitled, Funkhaus Commune. On Day 3, at 10PM on 20 March (Saturday), Fabian Larsson and I presents a video conversation where we discuss the need for an…
I am extremely honored to receive the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences) Early Career Award at the online awarding ceremony yesterday. And I was elated to have had the rare opportunity of retrieving my long-neglected Barong Tagalog from the attic to spice up my mostly pyjama wardrobe of the…
Happy New Year! 2020 may have brought to us some surprises–good and bad, I hope it also allowed you some moments of pause and reflection amidst our collective social distancing. I hope that 2021 holds some promises of possibilities of meeting face to face again! In the meantime, while the theatres…
We’d like to share the trailer/rehearsal of Pasyon 2020 that Pepe Dayaw and I did a few weeks ago, right before the quarantine. We were unable to fully realize the performance due to the technical difficulties circumscribed by the global pandemic. We look forward to re-sounding/re-wiring voicings of passion next…
Many thanks to the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin for sponsoring and hosting our Explorative Workshop “Acoustic Histories/Historiographies in the Asia Pacific” on 11-12 January 2018. Here is a short interview where I talk about our upcoming colloquium.